Love your analysis on social media addiction. Unfortunately, these companies make money by giving you little dopamine hits – so they can addict you. One of the platforms I dislike the most is Twitter: since the algorithm encourages such bad behavior from users who want those dopamine hits (in the form of likes, retweets, etc.)
our attention is the product and they are all incentivize to hold our attention as long as possible. you should read how to do nothing by jenny odell. it's a great book about resisting the attention economy.
i'll look into the article, rn. thanks for the comment.
Love your analysis on social media addiction. Unfortunately, these companies make money by giving you little dopamine hits – so they can addict you. One of the platforms I dislike the most is Twitter: since the algorithm encourages such bad behavior from users who want those dopamine hits (in the form of likes, retweets, etc.)
And I actually wrote an article on this too: https://nathanbrown.ghost.io/019-three-things-twitter/
our attention is the product and they are all incentivize to hold our attention as long as possible. you should read how to do nothing by jenny odell. it's a great book about resisting the attention economy.
i'll look into the article, rn. thanks for the comment.